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The Lutheran Pioneer.

The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—TuE present number closes the sixth vol-
ume of the LurHERAN PionEER. We trust
that the Master will continue to own our little
PIONEER in His service also in the future.

' We tender our thanks to the many friends who
have helped us in the circulation of our paper,
and we earnestly ask their continued and hearty
co-operation. Those who interest themselves to
procure subscribers are requested to report the
result of their efforts as early as possible to our
agent, M. C. Barthel, Concordia Publishing

_ House, St. Louis, Mo.

—Accorv1nG to Brobst’s Almanac for 1885

the ‘Lutheran Church in America’’ numbers
8,708 ministers, 6,529 congregations, 871,936

communicants.
—Ten years ago the Lutheran Synod of

Missouri, Ohio, and other States had but two

congregations and six parochial schools in

} Cleveland, O.; now there are 7 congregations,
2 mission stations and 21 schools connected
with the Missouri Synod in that city.

—On the 9th of November the Lutheran
Synod of Minnesota opened a new College at
New Ulm, Minn. There are good prospects
for a large attendance of young students who
have the ministry in view.

—Anpison, Ill., the seat of our Lutheran
School Teachers’ Seminary, was recently incor-
porated. The city council is composed entirely
of Lutherans, the Rev. Professor Brohm of the
seminary being one of the city fathers.

—Onz of the ablest and most prominent men
in Japan, Mr. Ito Hirobumi, returned from a
visit to Germany some time ago, and it is re-
ported that he addressed the Mikado urging
the truth and importance of Christianity. He

+ states that he formerly supposed that the Em-
peror William and Bismarck professed to be
Christians as a matter of policy, while they had
no regard for it at all in their hearts. But now
he says that this was a mistaken idea. He
found that both were sincere Christians, and
both urged him to seek this religion for his own
welfare and happiness as well as that of his
country. Such has been the influence of Mr.
Ito’s report that the chief officers in the cabinet
are becoming interested in the study of Christi-
anity, and the former Court teacher of Confu-
cianism is no longer opposing the Gospel, but
also carefully reading the Scriptures. In a
course of study recently prescribed for all the
Shinto priests, the Bible and “‘Martin’s Evi-
ae dences of Christianity ”’ are included.

_ <A wrirer in the New York Observer men-
tions the fact that one church in Washington
county, Pa., has sent into the ministry not less
‘than forty-four of her sons in little more than
me hundred years. get
-A LovuisyiLtE clergyman recently said in
his sermon, that if women and men would only

lancing. It would be just as graceful, he
ed, and just as healthful exercise, and

churches are self-supporting.
measurably true in some of the older missions

separate rooms he would not object to

they could keep step to the music just the same.
—Correct!

—In the ninety-eight years of its existence
the American Bible Society has issued more
than 43,000,000 volumes, including Bibles,
New Testaments and portions of the Gospels.

—Dr. Porter, of Shantung, describes the
condition of Chinese women, arising from the
lack of proper medical treatment, as truly piti-
able. The cure of their diseases is undertaken
by ignorant old women, full of the strangest
notions and superstitions, who treat their
patients in really barbarous ways. Among the
instances he gives of their attempts to heal is
the treatment of a child three days old, suffer-
ing from convulsions, by thrusting a red-hot
needle into its throat.

—MEn vill risk vast sums where there is a
reasonable prospect of a large return. The
amount of money that can be raised for the
promotion of schemes which give promise of
great dividends is almost unlimited. The Times
of India says that nearly twenty-five millions
of dollars have been invested in search for gold
in India, and that not twenty-five hundred dol-
lars’ worth of the precious metal has been ob-
tained after three years’ labor. Why cannot
more be raised for enterprises where the gains
are sure—where there may be found, not gold
that perishes, but souls of priceless and ever-
lasting worth?

—tIn Japan the middle classes of the popula-
tion have been reached to a considerable extent
by Christian missions and not a few native
The same is

of Southern India, Egypt, and Asia Minor. It
is an amazing circumstance that, in 1881, the
1,200 church-members belonging to the missions
in Egypt, most of them very poor men and
women, raised more than $17 each, for the sup-
port of churches and schools. The membership
of the nineteen native Japanese churches under
the care of the American Board of Missions is
now about one thousand, of whom more than
two hundred were recently received. These
members have contributed for Christian pur-
poses over eight dollars each, a sum, as com-

pared with the price of labor, equal to forty}.

dollars in the United States.

—A MISSIONARY writes from Kangwe Mission
Station, West Africa: ‘‘The church numbers
thirty members, of whom twenty-seven were
wild savages only six years ago, at which time
the site of the present church and station was
a wilderness. Some of these church-members
live seventy miles away, and must pull in their
canoes against a swift current all this distance,
in order to enjoy the privilege of gathering at
the Lord’s table. Others come a distance of
eighteen or twenty miles. At a missionary
meeting held in the afternoon, over seven dol-
Jars were given to send the Gospel to the
heathen!”

—A LurHeEkAn missionary from South Africa
reports the confirmation of a number of aged

persons.
mothers, four grandmothers and two grand-

fathers. Another missionary among the Zulus
writes that he is giving instructions to an old
Zulu named April, a man seventy years old,
who can speak three languages.
merly a decided opponent of Christianity.

Among them were two great-grand-

He was for-

—AND as we now close our window, we would

remind our dear readers that if they wish to
do something neat, something very neat, for
our sweet little Pioneer in the glad Christmas
season, they might put the names of new sub-
scribers in his Christmas stocking.
you alla

He wishes

Harry Curisrmas!

BOOK-TABLE.

DreR LUTHERISCHE KALENDER fiir 1885. Brobst,
Diehl & Co., Allentown, Pa. Price 10 cts.

Tux LIFE OF THE APOSTLE PauL. With Twenty-
Two Illustrations. A Christmas Gift for Chris-
tian children. Pilger Book Store, Reading, Pa.
Price 12 cts.; per dozen $1.20.

LENCUEN LuTHER. Das fromme Téchterlein Dr.
Luthers. Ein Weihnachtsbiichlein mit 10 Bil-
dern. Pilger Book Store, Reading, Pa. Price
10 cts.; per dozen $1.00.

LUTHER UND SEINE FREUNDE. By Rev. A. E. Frey.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
Price $1.00.

The Workman of Pittsburgh says of this valuable
book: ‘‘Luther’s friends and acquaintances to the
beginning of the Reformation are here sketched in
a delightful way. The life of cach is portrayed with
great skill and in due proportion. Wenceslaus Link,
Reuchlin, Erasmus, Hutten, Spalatin, Staupitz, etc.,
with many less familiar personages are set forth,
though Luther is the connecting link that gives
unity to the book. His letters, conversation and
characteristics are skillfully worked in to add zest
to what is the first of what we trust will be a valu-
able series of books from the same hand.”’

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches,
New ORr.Eans, La.
EY. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str,, between Claiborne and Dirbigny.

Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 74%
o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 2 to 4.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCH.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening and nt 7)4 Thursday
evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o’clock.

Adult catechumen class meets at 714 Tuesday evening.
N. J. BAKKE, Missionary.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church,
Cor. Rock § 12th Strs., Little Rock, Ark.

Divine service sunday) evening at 714 o’clock.

Sunday School from
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday evening.

Singing-school from 8—9 Wednesday evening.
G. ALLENBACH, Missionary.

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